A Proposal for the 51st State

<![CDATA[President Trump’s threat to annex Canada as America’s 51st state has provoked a sudden and unprecedented upsurge of patriotic fervor among Canadian politicians, media hoplites, and public figures from sea to shining sea. Yet, as The Epoch Times reminds us, “the backlash against the idea of becoming the 51st U.S. state exposes a deep contradiction in a country where in recent years there’s been a systematic effort to erase the Canadian identity and founding history.” The issue is, of course, exacerbated by the blanket tariff Trump is planning to impose on Canadian exports to the U.S.]]>